About the Editor

Roberto has over 25 years experience in the IT field, and has spent the last 12 years working in the intersection of open source software and business development. Roberto has taken an active interest in different open source projects and organizations, he has served on advisory boards, and helped large IT vendors, open source vendors and customers to design and deploy their open source strategies. After serving as Senior Director of Business Development at SourceForge for over 4 years, in 2016 he started a new company called Business Follows, whose mission is to is to help developers, companies and organizations to make Open Source development a key part of their business strategies. He is the editor of commercial open source blog.

Talkingfrequentlywith David Dennis – Senior Director marketing at GroundWork – I happened to share with him the idea that a neutral open source monitoring à la CMSMatrix was missing. Now that GroundWork decided to start an initiative somehow going towards that direction I asked Tara Spalding, VP Marketing at GroundWork, to comment the news.(More …)

Roberto,
Very astute observation the fact that while we get classified the same we obviously have very different paths to market:

“so that firms like Zenoss and GroundWork seem to use just the same model – i.e. differentiating on features their commercial and community products. On the contrary they use different open source production models, resulting in different core capabilities and configuration of activities (see “what is an open source business model” for more references on business models’ building blocks).”